Wither Skeleton

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A wither skeleton is a tall, black variant of a skeleton equipped with a stone sword. They inflict the Wither effect when attacking the player. They are found exclusively in Nether fortresses and are the only source of wither skeleton skulls, as well as the only renewable source of coal.

Wither skeletons can spawn in Nether fortresses at a light level between 0 and 7, in groups of 5‌^{[JE only]} or 2-3‌^{[BE only]}:

• In the structure bounding box of any single piece of the Nether fortress they can spawn on any block
• In the larger area bounding box of the entire Nether fortress they can spawn exclusively on Nether bricks

They are the only mobs that can spawn inside wither roses due to their immunity to the damaging effect.

Spiders and cave spiders spawned in the Nether using commands or spawn eggs have a 1% chance to spawn as a spider jockey, with an 80% chance of that spider being ridden by a wither skeleton.

On Halloween, wither skeletons have a 22.5% chance of spawning wearing a carved pumpkin and a 2.5% chance of spawning wearing a Jack o'lantern. They are never dropped.

The wither spawns 3-4 wither skeletons when below half health on Normal and Hard difficulties.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

• 8.5% chance of dropping their unenchanted stone sword which has a random durability. This chance increases by 1% per level of Looting, for a maximum of 11.5% chance with Looting III.
• 5XP experience orbs when killed by a player or tamed wolf, and an additional 1–3XP is dropped per piece of naturally-spawned equipment that does not drop upon death.
  • Because all wither skeletons spawn with a stone sword, each of them effectively drop 6–8XP if the sword is not dropped.
  • If the wither skeleton does drop its stone sword, it drops the default 5XP instead.
• A carved pumpkin or jack o'lantern worn by a wither skeleton spawned on Halloween is never dropped.

Wither skeletons wander aimlessly when idle. They sprint to attack players, iron golems, baby turtles, piglins, and piglin brutes within 16 blocks.

When an entity is attacked by a wither skeleton on any difficulty, it is inflicted with the Wither effect for 10 seconds, which turns the health bar black (HP👁 ❤️
× 10) and decreases it by 1HP👁 💔
every two seconds. Unlike Poison, this effect can cause death.

Wolves are aggressive toward wither skeletons, which retaliate when attacked. In Java Edition, wither skeletons flee from wolves because they are part of the skeleton family and wolves attack any mob from that family.^[1] Despite being associated to iron golems, villagers and wandering traders are ignored by wither skeletons. However, a wither skeleton can retaliate if a firework rocket set by a villager hits it.

In Normal and Hard difficulties, some wither skeletons pick up dropped equipment. The chance depends on regional difficulty, with up to 55% of them capable of picking up swords higher than stone tier plus any armor. Wither skeletons never take 👁 Image
bows; in Java Edition, if they hold a bow (which can be done with /summon wither_skeleton ~ ~ ~ {equipment:{mainhand:{id:bow, count:1}}}) they shoot flaming arrows even if their bows are not enchanted, dealing the same damage as a normal skeleton would plus an additional 4HP👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
of fire damage. If the wither skeleton is holding a tipped arrow or spectral arrow in its off-hand, it shoots that type of arrow, and the arrow held is not consumed. They cannot use crossbows.

Wither skeletons are immune to fire and the Wither effect. They still seek shade or water during daylight if they are in the Overworld, even though they do not burn in sunlight.

As they are also under the "skeletons" entity type tag, if a wither skeleton (only possible through commands) kills a creeper, the creeper drops a music disc, randomly selected from 13, cat, blocks, chirp, far, mall, mellohi, stal, strad, ward, 11, and wait.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Being an undead mob, they are:

• damaged by the status effect Instant Health and healed by the status effect Instant Damage.
• unaffected by the status effects Regeneration and Poison.
• ignored by the wither.
• affected by the Smite enchantment.
• unable to swim in water, but do not drown.
• a threat to armadillos, causing them to hide in their shell.

Due to their height of 2.4 blocks, they cannot fit through openings 2 blocks tall.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Wither skeleton have entity data associated with them that contains various properties. The wither skeleton is taller than the skeleton.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements that apply to all mobs:

Advancements that apply to all mobs:

Issues relating to "Wither Skeleton" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• 👁 A wither skeleton
  
  A wither skeleton
• 👁 A wither skeleton targeting.
  
  A wither skeleton targeting.
• 👁 A wither skeleton with a carved pumpkin on its head.
  
  A wither skeleton with a carved pumpkin on its head.
• 👁 A wither skeleton wearing iron armor and wielding an iron sword.
  
  A wither skeleton wearing iron armor and wielding an iron sword.
• 👁 A wither skeleton targeting without a weapon.
  
  A wither skeleton targeting without a weapon.
• 👁 A wither skeleton holding a bow, ready to fire an arrow.
  
  A wither skeleton holding a bow, ready to fire an arrow.
• 👁 A wither skeleton spider jockey.‌[Bedrock Edition only]
  
  A wither skeleton spider jockey.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}
• 👁 A wither skeleton cave spider jockey.‌[Bedrock Edition only]
  
  A wither skeleton cave spider jockey.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

• 👁 A wither skeleton being compared to its variants in Java Edition.
  
  A wither skeleton being compared to its variants in Java Edition.
• 👁 A wither skeleton in the Overworld.
  
  A wither skeleton in the Overworld.
• 👁 A wither jockey.
  
  A wither jockey.
• 👁 A wither skeleton next to the wall of a Nether fortress.
  
  A wither skeleton next to the wall of a Nether fortress.
• 👁 A wither skeleton and a blaze idling in a Nether fortress.
  
  A wither skeleton and a blaze idling in a Nether fortress.
• 👁 A wither skeleton and two blazes near a blaze monster spawner.
  
  A wither skeleton and two blazes near a blaze monster spawner.
• 👁 Wither skeleton wearing a pumpkin on Halloween.
  
  Wither skeleton wearing a pumpkin on Halloween.
• 👁 Wither skeleton wearing a jack o'lantern in the Nether.
  
  Wither skeleton wearing a jack o'lantern in the Nether.
• 👁 A wither skeleton in a Nether fortress.
  
  A wither skeleton in a Nether fortress.
• 👁 A wither skeleton compared to a tall player.‌[Bedrock Edition only]
  
  A wither skeleton compared to a tall player.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

• 👁 A preview of two wither skeletons in the soul sand valley.
  
  A preview of two wither skeletons in the soul sand valley.
• 👁 Image
  

• 👁 Wither skeleton texture file.
  
  Wither skeleton texture file.

• 👁 Wither Skeleton in promotional artwork for the Pretty Scary Update.
  
  Wither Skeleton in promotional artwork for the Pretty Scary Update.
• 👁 Wither Skeletons in promotional artwork for the Nether Update.
  
  Wither Skeletons in promotional artwork for the Nether Update.
• 👁 A Wither Skeleton, as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons.
  
  A Wither Skeleton, as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons.
• 👁 LEGO Minecraft Wither Skeleton.
  
  LEGO Minecraft Wither Skeleton.
• 👁 "Acid Wither Skeleton," an officially licensed T-Shirt design.
  
  "Acid Wither Skeleton," an officially licensed T-Shirt design.
• 👁 An officially licensed cup featuring a wither skeleton.
  
  An officially licensed cup featuring a wither skeleton.
• 👁 A wither skeleton as it appears in Ghast in the Machine!
  
  A wither skeleton as it appears in Ghast in the Machine!
• 👁 Wither skeleton action figure.
  
  Wither skeleton action figure.

• Skeleton (disambiguation)
• 👁 Image
  Wither